Teachers agreeing to even larger class sizes would be like turkeys voting for Christmas.
New idioms dictionary. 2014.
like turkeys voting for an early Christmas — like turkeys voting for (an early) Christmas British & Australian, humorous if people are like turkeys voting for Christmas, they choose to accept a situation which will have very bad results for them. Teachers agreeing to even larger class sizes … New idioms dictionary
turkeys voting for Christmas — This expression is used to say that a particular option is unlikely to be chosen because it would not be in the interest of the people concerned. (In many countries people eat turkey at Christmas.) Expecting them to accept a decrease in… … English Idioms & idiomatic expressions
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